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Paper 42

Energy—Mind and Matter

Mighty Messenger

2. Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems
(Physical Energies)

42:2.1It is in­deed dif­fi­cult to find suit­able words in the En­glish lan­guage whereby to des­ig­nate and where­with to de­scribe the var­i­ous lev­els of force and en­ergy—phys­i­cal, mindal, or spir­i­tual. These nar­ra­tives can­not al­to­gether fol­low your ac­cepted def­i­ni­tions of force, en­ergy, and power. There is such paucity of lan­guage that we must use these terms in mul­ti­ple mean­ings. In this pa­per, for ex­am­ple, the word en­ergy is used to de­note all phases and forms of phe­nom­e­nal mo­tion, ac­tion, and po­ten­tial, while force is ap­plied to the pre­grav­ity, and power to the post­grav­ity, stages of en­ergy.

42:2.2I will, how­ever, en­deavor to lessen con­cep­tual con­fu­sion by sug­gest­ing the ad­vis­abil­ity of adopt­ing the fol­low­ing clas­si­fi­ca­tion for cos­mic force, emer­gent en­ergy, and uni­verse power—phys­i­cal en­ergy:

42:2.31. Space po­tency. This is the un­ques­tioned free space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The ex­ten­sion of this con­cept con­notes the uni­verse force-space po­ten­tial in­her­ent in the func­tional to­tal­ity of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, while the in­ten­sion of this con­cept im­plies the to­tal­ity of cos­mic re­al­ity—uni­verses—which em­anated eter­ni­ty­wise from the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing, never-mov­ing, never-chang­ing Isle of Par­a­dise.

42:2.4The phe­nom­ena in­dige­nous to the nether side of Par­a­dise prob­a­bly em­brace three zones of ab­so­lute force pres­ence and per­for­mance: the ful­cral zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the zone of the Isle of Par­a­dise it­self, and the in­ter­ven­ing zone of cer­tain uniden­ti­fied equal­iz­ing and com­pen­sat­ing agen­cies or func­tions. These tri­con­cen­tric zones are the cen­trum of the Par­a­dise cy­cle of cos­mic re­al­ity.

42:2.5Space po­tency is a pre­re­al­ity; it is the do­main of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and is re­spon­sive only to the per­sonal grasp of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, not­with­stand­ing that it is seem­ingly mod­i­fi­able by the pres­ence of the Pri­mary Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.6On Uversa, space po­tency is spo­ken of as AB­SO­LUTA.

42:2.72. Pri­mor­dial force. This rep­re­sents the first ba­sic change in space po­tency and may be one of the nether Par­a­dise func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We know that the space pres­ence go­ing out from nether Par­a­dise is mod­i­fied in some man­ner from that which is in­com­ing. But re­gard­less of any such pos­si­ble re­la­tion­ships, the openly rec­og­nized trans­mu­ta­tion of space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force is the pri­mary dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing func­tion of the ten­sion-pres­ence of the liv­ing Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.8Pas­sive and po­ten­tial force be­comes ac­tive and pri­mor­dial in re­sponse to the re­sis­tance af­forded by the space pres­ence of the Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers. Force is now emerg­ing from the ex­clu­sive do­main of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute into the realms of mul­ti­ple re­sponse—re­sponse to cer­tain pri­mal mo­tions ini­ti­ated by the God of Ac­tion and there­upon to cer­tain com­pen­sat­ing mo­tions em­a­nat­ing from the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. Pri­mor­dial force is seem­ingly re­ac­tive to tran­scen­den­tal cau­sa­tion in pro­por­tion to ab­so­lute­ness.

42:2.9Pri­mor­dial force is some­times spo­ken of as pure en­ergy; on Uversa we re­fer to it as SEG­RE­GATA.

42:2.103. Emer­gent en­er­gies. The pas­sive pres­ence of the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers is suf­fi­cient to trans­form space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force, and it is upon such an ac­ti­vated space field that these same force or­ga­niz­ers be­gin their ini­tial and ac­tive op­er­a­tions. Pri­mor­dial force is des­tined to pass through two dis­tinct phases of trans­mu­ta­tion in the realms of en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion be­fore ap­pear­ing as uni­verse power. These two lev­els of emerg­ing en­ergy are:

42:2.11a. Puis­sant en­ergy. This is the pow­er­ful-di­rec­tional, mass-move­mented, mighty-ten­sioned, and forcible-re­act­ing en­ergy—gi­gan­tic en­ergy sys­tems set in mo­tion by the ac­tiv­i­ties of the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers. This pri­mary or puis­sant en­ergy is not at first def­i­nitely re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise-grav­ity pull though prob­a­bly yield­ing an ag­gre­gate-mass or space-di­rec­tional re­sponse to the col­lec­tive group of ab­so­lute in­flu­ences op­er­a­tive from the nether side of Par­a­dise. When en­ergy emerges to the level of ini­tial re­sponse to the cir­cu­lar and ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise, the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers give way to the func­tion­ing of their sec­ondary as­so­ciates.

42:2.12b. Grav­ity en­ergy. The now-ap­pear­ing grav­ity-re­spond­ing en­ergy car­ries the po­ten­tial of uni­verse power and be­comes the ac­tive an­ces­tor of all uni­verse mat­ter. This sec­ondary or grav­ity en­ergy is the prod­uct of the en­ergy elab­o­ra­tion re­sult­ing from the pres­sure-pres­ence and the ten­sion-trends set up by the As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers. In re­sponse to the work of these force ma­nip­u­la­tors, space-en­ergy rapidly passes from the puis­sant to the grav­ity stage, thus be­com­ing di­rectly re­spon­sive to the cir­cu­lar grasp of Par­a­dise (ab­so­lute) grav­ity while dis­clos­ing a cer­tain po­ten­tial for sen­si­tiv­ity to the lin­ear-grav­ity pull in­her­ent in the soon ap­pear­ing ma­te­rial mass of the elec­tronic and the post­elec­tronic stages of en­ergy and mat­ter. Upon the ap­pear­ance of grav­ity re­sponse, the As­so­ciate Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers may re­tire from the en­ergy cy­clones of space pro­vided the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors are assignable to that field of ac­tion.

42:2.13We are quite un­cer­tain re­gard­ing the ex­act causes of the early stages of force evo­lu­tion, but we rec­og­nize the in­tel­li­gent ac­tion of the Ul­ti­mate in both lev­els of emer­gent-en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion. Puis­sant and grav­ity en­er­gies, when re­garded col­lec­tively, are spo­ken of on Uversa as UL­TI­MATA.

42:2.144. Uni­verse power. Space-force has been changed into space-en­ergy and thence into the en­ergy of grav­ity con­trol. Thus has phys­i­cal en­ergy been ripened to that point where it can be di­rected into chan­nels of power and made to serve the man­i­fold pur­poses of the uni­verse Cre­ators. This work is car­ried on by the ver­sa­tile di­rec­tors, cen­ters, and con­trol­lers of phys­i­cal en­ergy in the grand uni­verse—the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations. These Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors as­sume the more or less com­plete con­trol of twenty-one of the thirty phases of en­ergy con­sti­tut­ing the pres­ent en­ergy sys­tem of the seven super­uni­verses. This do­main of power-en­ergy-mat­ter is the realm of the in­tel­li­gent ac­tiv­i­ties of the Sev­en­fold, func­tion­ing un­der the time-space over­con­trol of the Su­preme.

42:2.15On Uversa we re­fer to the realm of uni­verse power as GRAVITA.

42:2.165. Ha­vona en­ergy. In con­cept this nar­ra­tive has been mov­ing Par­adis­e­ward as trans­mut­ing space-force has been fol­lowed, level by level, to the work­ing level of the en­ergy-power of the uni­verses of time and space. Con­tin­u­ing Par­adis­e­ward, there is next en­coun­tered a pre-ex­is­tent phase of en­ergy which is char­ac­ter­is­tic of the cen­tral uni­verse. Here the evo­lu­tion­ary cy­cle seems to turn back upon it­self; en­ergy-power now seems to be­gin to swing back to­wards force, but force of a na­ture very un­like that of space po­tency and pri­mor­dial force. Ha­vona en­ergy sys­tems are not dual; they are tri­une. This is the ex­is­ten­tial en­ergy do­main of the Con­joint Ac­tor, func­tion­ing in be­half of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity.

42:2.17On Uversa these en­er­gies of Ha­vona are known as TRI­ATA.

42:2.186. Tran­scen­den­tal en­ergy. This en­ergy sys­tem op­er­ates on and from the up­per level of Par­a­dise and only in con­nec­tion with the ab­so­nite peo­ples. On Uversa it is de­nom­i­nated TRA­NOSTA.

42:2.197. Monota. En­ergy is close of kin to di­vin­ity when it is Par­a­dise en­ergy. We in­cline to the be­lief that monota is the liv­ing, non­spirit en­ergy of Par­a­dise—an eter­nity coun­ter­part of the liv­ing, spirit en­ergy of the Orig­i­nal Son—hence the non­spir­i­tual en­ergy sys­tem of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

42:2.20We can­not dif­fer­en­ti­ate the na­ture of Par­a­dise spirit and Par­a­dise monota; they are ap­par­ently alike. They have dif­fer­ent names, but you can hardly be told very much about a re­al­ity whose spir­i­tual and whose non­spir­i­tual man­i­fes­ta­tions are dis­tin­guish­able only by name.

42:2.21We know that fi­nite crea­tures can at­tain the wor­ship ex­pe­ri­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the min­istry of God the Sev­en­fold and the Thought Ad­justers, but we doubt that any sub­ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity, even power di­rec­tors, can com­pre­hend the en­ergy in­fin­ity of the First Great Source and Cen­ter. One thing is cer­tain: If the power di­rec­tors are con­ver­sant with the tech­nique of the meta­mor­pho­sis of space-force, they do not re­veal the se­cret to the rest of us. It is my opin­ion that they do not fully com­pre­hend the func­tion of the force or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.22These power di­rec­tors them­selves are en­ergy cat­alyz­ers; that is, they cause en­ergy to seg­ment, or­ga­nize, or as­sem­ble in unit for­ma­tion by their pres­ence. And all this im­plies that there must be some­thing in­her­ent in en­ergy which causes it thus to func­tion in the pres­ence of these power en­ti­ties. The Neb­a­don Mel­chiz­e­deks long since de­nom­i­nated the phe­nom­e­non of the trans­mu­ta­tion of cos­mic force into uni­verse power as one of the seven “in­fini­ties of di­vin­ity.” And that is as far as you will ad­vance on this point dur­ing your lo­cal uni­verse as­cen­sion.

42:2.23Not­with­stand­ing our in­abil­ity fully to com­pre­hend the ori­gin, na­ture, and trans­mu­ta­tions of cos­mic force, we are fully con­ver­sant with all phases of emer­gent-en­ergy be­hav­ior from the times of its di­rect and un­mis­tak­able re­sponse to the ac­tion of Par­a­dise grav­ity—about the time of the be­gin­ning of the func­tion of the super­uni­verse power di­rec­tors.